HAProxy is in my top-10 list of technology that just works. Ninefold use it extensively for Managing Logs and routing within clustered Rails applications. The latest version has a ton of new features including SSL termination.

I love Elixir and Erlang, and have toyed with the Elrang ecosystem on and off for years. This argument holds true for me. A language an ecosystem needs an entry point or onramp for new developers. Node.js has JavaScript itself, Ruby has Rails. Erlang sort-of has Elixir and Elixir has … ?

Obviously, more code emits more text. Higher level code generates an explanation utilizing higher level abstractions. This way we can use bigger building blocks not only in coding, but in problem solving.